Deflector.



T. T. PEDDY.

DBFLEGTOR.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 19 @mw/MM,

Patented 0015. 7,

THUMAS T. PEDDY, 0F BIENVILLE, LOUISIANA.

l DEFLECTUR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oet. 7, 1913.

Aplion ldd J'uly 19, 1912. Serial No. 710,484.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS T. PEDDY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Bienville, in the parish of Bienville and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Deflectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to deflectors for car windows, the object in view being to provide an exceedingly simple, cheap and effect-ive fastener for securing deflectors to car windows, and enabling the same tobe reversed and applied either at the front or atthe back of any individual window of the car, the deflector itself being of such construction as to cause an outward movement of the cinders, dust and other flying material, while also inducing an outward current of air from the interior of the car, thereby not only preventing the cinders from reaching a person sitting adjacent to the window, but also effecting a thorough but gradual ventilation of the car.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings: Figure l is a horizontal section through a suflic1ent portion of a car, including a car window, to show the improved deflector applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the delector, and a portion of the car window, showing the improved fastening device applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the deector.

Fig. 4 is a similar view of the fastening device as applied to a window frame.

The deflector is shown as made up of a single blank of sheet metal, the deilector portion 1 being concavo-convex in horizontal cross section, while the body 2, which is commensurate in length with the deflector portion 1, is double upon itself as shown at 3, to provide a base of double thickness, which will adequately support the car window which rests directly upon the upper edge of the body 2, when the deflector as a whole is in its operative position, the lower edge of said body 2 resting upon the car sill, while the deector portion 1 extends beyond the plane of the car body.

In carrying out the present invention, I employ a keeper plate 4 which is fastened rigidly to the jamb of the window frame at `two point-s 5, thus rendering it impossible for said keeper plate to move in any direction. At its upper end, the keeper late is offset outwardly, as shown at 6, to orm an upwardly extending retaining lip 7 for engagement with the base 2 ofthe deflector. `The fastener also comprises aA pivoted button 8, the same being pivotally connected to the keeper plate 4, at the point 9. The length of the button 8 is such that the lower end thereof, when the button is swung downward, projects beyond the lower end of the keeper plate 4, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 4. The button 8 is provided with an outwardly projecting knob 10 to facilitate turning said button from its pendent position to an upright position.

The base 2 of the deflector is provided with a slot 11, the width of which is just suiicient to allow the base 2 to pass over the keeper plate 4, and bear against the jamb 12 of the car window. The length of the slot 11 is slightly in excess of the tot-a1 length of the keeper plate 4, including the retaining lip 7, in order that the base 2 may be placed over the keeper plate, and then slid downward until the retaining lip 7 bears against the outside of the base 2 just above the upper extremity of the slot 11, as shown in Fig. 2. The button 8 is of such length that when the base 2 has been slid down behind the lip 7, the lower end of ythe button, when the latter is swung downward, will rest against the side of the base 2 and confine the same against the jamb of` the-...window frame, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing description, it will y now be understood that the deflector is reversible, or in other words, said deliector may be turned either end up, so that it may' be applied to either side or jamb of the window frame. This adapts the deflector to a car moving in either direction, one of said fasteners being applied to each window jamb, so as to admit of the interchangeability of the delector from one side of the window to the other.

What is claimed is:

A deilector for the purpose stated, comprising a Hat base provided with a slot therein, a concavo-convex body extending voutwardly from the base. a keeper plate adapted to be iixedly attached to a car window frame and t0 be received in the slot in the base of* the deector, an out'wardly of the deuector base and 'lock thesame t0 10 offset deector retaining lip formed intethe frame. grally with one end of the keeper late, and In testimony whereof I afix my signature i turn bllltton piivotally noultz ion said in .presence of two Witnesses.

5 eeper p ate an a so a ap e o pass v through said slot and to project at one end 'THOMAS T' PEDDY beyond the opposite end of the keeper plate Witnesses: from the retaining lip thereof, both of Said J. C. PEDDY, lips being adapted to engage the outer face J. H. HANNER. 

